Samsung Galaxy Tab Review: A Pocketable Train Wreck — This is it. The Galaxy Tab is the first Android tablet meant for humans. But is it actually fit for humans? — Put simply, the Galaxy Tab is the first post-iPad tablet that matters, because it's the first tablet that's trying to be legitimate competition.

Windows Phone 7 Success Tied to a Million in Sales — Critics are already debating whether Windows Phone 7 is a flop, but the phone's true measure of success will be in how long it takes to sell one million units. It all started after reports that Microsoft's new handset platform sold …

RIM to Sell Tablet for Less Than $500 to Take On IPad — Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) — Research In Motion Ltd., moving into the tablet-computer market for the first time, said it will begin selling its BlackBerry PlayBook for less than $500, suggesting RIM may try to undercut Apple Inc.'s iPad.

Stat Shot: The Results of Silicon Valley's Talent War — We've covered the war for talent among startups and larger tech firms in Silicon Valley, but after Google issued employees a $1,000 bonus and 10 percent raise, Glassdoor took a look at how well people at Google were paid, and specifically …

Apple Did Not Actually Buy Wi-Gear, It Turns Out — Remember that story yesterday which said that Apple (AAPL) had acquired a Bluetooth wireless headphone maker called Wi-Gear? — Well, turns out it wasn't true. — “The rumor is false,” Wi-Gear CEO Mark Pundsack said via e-mail in response to an inquiry from Tech Trader Daily.

MacBook Air Rises to Top of Consumer Reports Ratings — More good press for the MacBook Air. Consumer Reports updated its computer ratings earlier this week to include the machine, and while it had some criticisms, it ranked the 11-inch Air and its 13-inch sibling at the top …

The Great Cyberheist — One night in July 2003, a little before midnight, a plainclothes N.Y.P.D. detective, investigating a series of car thefts in upper Manhattan, followed a suspicious-looking young man with long, stringy hair and a nose ring into the A.T.M. lobby of a bank.

Fanboy Fascination: Is Andreessen Horowitz Overhyped? — Social psychologist Amy Cuddy of Harvard Business School recently produced some interesting research suggesting that people are highly likely to see someone as competent if they've demonstrated expertise in just one area, even if they later display incompetence elsewhere.

Google Warns Facebook Users of “Trap” Before Data Export — If you hadn't yet heard, there's been a bit of a kerfuffle this past week over your data by two Internet giants - Facebook and Google. It started when Google began blocking other services from importing its data without reciprocity, a move aimed directly at Facebook.

Apache declares war on Oracle over Java — The Apache Software Foundation threatens to ditch Java if Oracle doesn't relent on use restrictions — I like it! — Charging that Oracle has willfully disregarded the licensing terms for its own Java technology, the Apache Software Foundation …

Hulu CEO: We'll make $240M in 2010 — Hulu chief executive Jason Kilar shared some numbers today to show where the online TV service stood at the end of October. — The service launched its beta test almost exactly three years ago, so while the service is relatively early, Kilar said …

Google Places: Selective Reviews Now Being Removed — Google appears to be actively removing some reviews from Places listings. — Some of the recent problems of reviews being lost are clearly algo based and reports of lost reviews continue to pile up in the forums.

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